Let me temper that hypothesis a little. OS/2 kicked the shit out of Windows. Hands down. Windows had the installed base. BeOS kicked the shit out of System 7. Hands down. System 7 had the installed base. A rich feature set is great and is definitely something to strive for. However, without having a community in place to use that feature set, no one will ever know about it. I think it's an optimization problem: you need the right balance for peak adoption. Nuking /all was worthwhile. I like the approach you've taken (I think radio buttons would work better than a pulldown but that's ergonomics). I just want to caution you that if you don't focus at least a little on protecting the content that attracts your early adopters, their content may eventually disappear. Frankly, I think you're miles ahead of Reddit. My personal suspicion is that Alexis stumbled upon a social networking structure that refines conversation and Steve just barely managed to code it together and they succeeded in selling to an ossified media giant that didn't know what the fuck they were looking at while all other buyers went "WTF is this shit" and walked on. Reddit is every bit the profit center 4chan is, which damn near bankrupted Chris Poole. Hubski, on the other hand, seems like a thoughtfully-crafted and deliberate place. I feel as if development is most assuredly in good hands. I just wish to caution you that if you attempt to solve "community" problems with "coding" solutions the outcome won't always be as desired.